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Weekly World News Paperback – November 20, 2014
Founded in 1979, the Weekly World News was an irreverent tabloid newspaper that played with sensationalist conventions in tabloid journalism. Iconic in its design and infamous in its content, it ran for twenty-eight years, and at its peak it had a circulation of 1.2 million per issue. It ceased to appear in print form in 2007, but has maintained its cult status with an on-line presence. (Recent startling stories include President Obama's Executive Order to immediately begin carving his face on Mount Rushmore.)
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRoads Publishing
- Publication dateNovember 20, 2014
- Dimensions7.01 x 0.8 x 8.71 inches
- ISBN-10190939940X
- ISBN-13978-1909399402
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- Publisher : Roads Publishing (November 20, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 190939940X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1909399402
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.01 x 0.8 x 8.71 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,533,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,996 in Journalism Writing Reference (Books)
- #5,245 in Communication & Media Studies
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Previously, McGinness wrote WEEKLY WORLD NEWS (Roads Publishing UK, November 2014) and a fiction book about a pandemic a decade before the real pandemic: GOING MUTANT (Scribner, September 2010).
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The book reproduces some of the funniest pages from the tabloid supermarket weekly. Started in 1979 by Generoso Pope Jr who was reluctant to junk an old black and white printing press so he created the weekly, it managed to sell about 1,200,000 in the eighties and then sales slowly declined until the print edition closed in 2007. Over the years the old favourites kept on and on, Elvis, Bigfoot, UFOs, Hilary Clinton and from 1992 onwards Bat boy was a real regular. It's not just the wild headlines and heavily airbrushed photos that grabbed the readers because the stories ran to hundreds of words which did their best to maintain some sort of credibility despite the fantasy.
Considering the bizarre nature of the material I found it odd that unlike British tabloids the WWN didn't go in for off-beat headlines, there's nothing to compete against the Sun's 'Why a salesgirl tried to batter flashing fishmonger's codpiece' or 'Crumpet voluntary bandsman 21 has bit of oompah with pal's wife 45' but of course these stories only really ran because some copy-editor came up with a great headline. American papers tend to play it straight though the daily New York Post, in an edition from April 1983, came up with 'Headless body in topless bar'.
The book is nicely produced and fortunately all the text is readable despite the reduced page size from the original tabloid and you'll get a free page because 92 is repeated on page 253.
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Someone really needs to do reprints of the entire WWN back issues. Every issue, every page.
More believable than a lot of the guff the BBC pump out....